Special Report

Back to square zero!

As big skeletons threaten to tumble out of the Saradha closet and Bengal’s feckless political parties blame each other for the mess, the defrauded are being left to count their losses, reports Snehangshu Adhikari

Special Story

Minority appeasement, again?

The steely hope in Ayesha Qazmi's voice pierces through a patchy telephone connection. "My burdens will go. It is now just a matter of days”, she exults from her home in the village of Sammopur, Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.

Typos

The ugly duckling

He sat by the tracks and felt the line come to life. The rail road quivered, excitedly. And in his little toes, he felt the same excitement as the distant rumble rolled closer. He put down the diary in which he was giving words to his angry tears and got to his feet. The ballast poked and pricked at his bare feet but he couldn’t feel any of it.

Business

Is Apple losing the plot?

Five months into his tenure at Apple, Tim Cook invited a select group of Apple’s shareholders at the company’s conference center at 4 Infinite Loop building. The idea was to get those investors to understand the company and its new CEO better.

Arts

Can Chulbil Pandey become bade bhaiya and re-claim prem land?

Ready. Bodyguard. Dabangg. Wanted. EkTha Tiger… Salman Khan is unquestionably the new King Khan on the block, threatening to ham, fight and roar into the unimaginable Rs 500 crore space very soon!

Tryst

"Taihoku plane crash is the most probable theory"

Anita Bose Pfaff was an infant when she last met her father. She grew up under the burden of being the only bloodline of Subhash Chandra Bose – Netaji – one of India’s most celebrated freedom fighters, who some some scholars believe, could have posed a stiff challenge to Jawaharlal Nehru to become India’s first Prime Minister.

Undercover

The end of poverty

Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank, has set out on an ambitious goal. He is looking to remake the world in his own image that will surely appear utopian to many. What Kim wants is to have "a sustainable world where all households have access to clean energy.

Smokers, cough up more

The unraveling of the Saradha scam in West Bengal could not have come at a more inopportune time for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. It has only confirmed the growing perception that the state is in the throes of severe misrule and inept governance at the hands of Didi and her Trinamool Congress Party.

The digital dungeon!

Consider this: an EU Kids Online survey shows that more than "one third of 9-12 year olds and three quarters of 13-16 year olds who use the internet in Europe have their own profile on a social networking site.”

Life

From Neecha Nagar to Miss Lovely

Indian cinema’s association with the Cannes Film Festival goes back a long way. As the world’s largest film producing nation inches its way back into the reckoning on the Croisette, here is a historical overview of what has gone before

Rear Window

The Mamata factor

While Trinamool Congress might have unleashed a reign of terror in Bengal against CPM leaders, the April 9 Delhi incident where CPM cadres decided to heckle and insult chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Finance Minister Amit Mitra, has brought the Left party’s influential West Bengal and Kerala units on a collision course.

Far Pavilion

China does a mini-Kargil

A well-prepared China is testing Indian nerves on the border after widening the gap in military capability and economic strength, writes Mayank Singh

History Mail

Robert Pirosh to Hollywood

When copywriter Robert Pirosh landed in Hollywood in 1934, eager to become a screenwriter, he wrote and sent the following letter to all the directors, producers, and studio executives he could think of. The approach worked, and after securing three interviews he took a job as a junior writer with MGM.

Book Review

Book Review: Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta

A palpable shockwave swept through the Indian and international-corporate world after Rajat Gupta, the India-born former head of McKinsey & Co, was convicted for one of the largest insider trading scandal in US history in June 2012.